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How one university is luring coveted honors students with social justice

The Hechinger Report

Tyndall turned down a bevy of offers from colleges in other states to attend Rutgers’ Honors Living-Learning Community (HLLC), which brings together dozens of students each year for a residential program that combines rigorous academics with a social-justice focus. “I percent in 2000 to 25 percent by 2025.

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Professional Development to Look Forward To

Zinn Education Project

We are thrilled to announce the 2024–2025 Teach the Black Freedom Struggle season of online classes — a series unlike any other professional development. These classes focus on uncovering the Black history that we all should have been taught and equip teachers with the knowledge to bring these lessons into classrooms.

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

The Hechinger Report

If we are not doing this,” he said, “it is a social justice issue. Tennessee’s is “Drive to 55” — to equip 55 percent of Tennesseans with a college degree or certificate by 2025.) Should you not get college credit just because we don’t teach it here?”. Many states have embraced education attainment goals.

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Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups

Zinn Education Project

Now my students know that if I am wearing my BLM shirt or Black History Matters shirt at school it is not a performative act — it means that they can hold me accountable to what I have done in and out of class to show that I am living up to that belief. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity.

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National Teach Truth Day of Action Press Call Highlights

Zinn Education Project

The Day of Action is cosponsored by more than 65 prominent racial and social justice organizations. The goal is to raise awareness about how anti-history education laws and book bans — and their chilling effect — threaten any chance of an informed and engaged democracy. Here are highlights from the remarks.

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Facing legal threats, colleges back off race-based programs

The Hechinger Report

The group’s “Vision: 2025” includes “continued OCR complaints” and “strategic lawsuits.” It’s really about excluding people, and we have a long history of doing that,” said Cole. Christopher Molina, a senior at the University of Arkansas and Marc Mund, his mentor with Latinx On the Rise, on the campus in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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Meet the New Editorial Team for the American Political Science Review (APSR)

Political Science Now

Her research focuses on early modern political theory and the history of International Relations Thought. Her research interests are in political theory, with a focus on issues of economic justice, distributive and social justice, work and leisure, environmental ethics, and gender and family justice.